Manfred von Richthofen Quotes

The Crocodile. He just lies there on the riverbank, his eyes half closed, looking sleepy. Then whap, he bites.

All are not hunters who blow the [hunting] horn.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

To snatch the worm from the trap.

It's a pretty weird feeling when a wolf is scared of you.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years. Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha!

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted.

Fear is just part of our DNA and our make-up. By definition, if we've had to be looked after for two years, it means we can't do it on our own and we need other people. That makes trust enormously important and it makes fear massive. Massive fear and trust issues really just defines us. The partner to belief is truth. If we're being fed lies, that's so powerful. And then, when we realize we're being lied to, it's going to make us really angry.

There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be faster than you.

Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.